Jay van Zyl @ ecosystem.Ai

Jay van Zyl @ ecosystem.Ai

The Incredible Ways John Deere Is Using Artificial Intelligence To Transform Farming – Forbes

ForbesThe Incredible Ways John Deere Is Using Artificial Intelligence To Transform FarmingForbesPesticides are currently an essential ingredient of big agriculture in order to ensure we can continue to feed the ever-growing global population of our pla…

Artificial Intelligence And Robotics Will Lead To More Jobs, If We Do It Right – Forbes


Forbes

Artificial Intelligence And Robotics Will Lead To More Jobs, If We Do It Right
Forbes
As we enter into the next revolutionary age, the age of artificial intelligence (AI), it’s no surprise fear often guides the mainstream narrative. Fear of massive job loss and millions unemployed as AI and robots are implemented on a global scale. But

MIT Intelligence Quest kicks off

A star-studded lineup helps the Institute celebrate the launch of a new initiative on human and machine intelligence.

Reptile: A Scalable Meta-Learning Algorithm

We’ve developed a simple meta-learning algorithm called Reptile which works by repeatedly sampling a task, performing stochastic gradient descent on it, and updating the initial parameters towards the final parameters learned on that task. This method performs as well as MAML, a broadly applicable meta-learning algorithm, while being simpler to

Most Americans See Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Jobs (Just Not Theirs) – New York Times

New York TimesMost Americans See Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Jobs (Just Not Theirs)New York TimesThe report that was released on Tuesday reflects only some of the findings of a large survey of nearly 3,300 American adults conducted in Septem…

Teaching computers to guide science: Machine learning method sees forests and trees – Science Daily


Newswise (press release)

Teaching computers to guide science: Machine learning method sees forests and trees
Science Daily
The paper is the culmination of three years of work that the authors believe will transform the way science is done. “With our method we can gain radically richer information than we’ve ever been able to gain from a learning machine,” Brown said. The
Teaching Computers to Guide Science: New Machine Learning Method Sees the Forests and the TreesNewswise (press release)

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Nvidia Seen Fending Off Rival Artificial-Intelligence Chips – Investor’s Business Daily

Nvidia Seen Fending Off Rival Artificial-Intelligence ChipsInvestor’s Business DailyGraphics chip maker Nvidia (NVDA) is well-positioned to fight off emerging competitors in the market for chips for artificial-intelligence applications, a Wall Street a…

OpenAI Scholars

We’re providing 6-10 stipends and mentorship to individuals from underrepresented groups to study deep learning full-time for 3 months and open-source a project.

This is a remote program and is open to anyone with US work authorization located in US timezones (we’re happy to provide a desk in our

Google partnered with the US military on machine learning to analyze drone footage – 9to5Google


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Google partnered with the US military on machine learning to analyze drone footage
9to5Google
Gizmodo this morning reported on a Google partnership last year with the U.S. Department of Defense to improve the latter organization’s adoption of machine learning. The DoD’s Project Maven is tasked with identifying objects in drone footage. Google
Google helps Pentagon analyze military drone footage—employees “outraged”Ars Technica
Google Is Quietly Providing AI Technology for Drone Strike Targeting ProjectThe Intercept
Pentagon Drone Program Is Using Google AIBloomberg
MIT Technology Review
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Analysis. Artificial Intelligence is ‘eating the world’ – Business Review


Business Review

Analysis. Artificial Intelligence is ‘eating the world’
Business Review
Some 64 percent of Romanians aged 16-74 had used the internet in the past three months, while the EU average stood at 84 percent, according to a survey carried out in 2017 by Eurostat, the statistics office of the EU. “Software is eating the world, but

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